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I guess I just think it's funny that we need scientific studies for blatantly disingenuous claims: "their task is to simply provide information and in that way
by banads 7y ago
I guess I just think it's funny that we need scientific studies for blatantly disingenuous claims: "their task is to simply provide information and in that way they raise human well-being."
It's like doing a scientific study on the common claim of advertisers that "the internet would not exist without advertising".
- nck4222 7y agoThe research wasn't done to test a "blatantly disingenuous" claim, it was done to determine the effect of advertising on mood. They're able to quantify how much of an effect it has on happiness as well. "Our analysis shows that if you doubled advertising spending, it would result in a 3% drop in life satisfaction. That’s about half the drop in life satisfaction you’d see in a person who had gotten divorced or about one-third the drop you’d see in someone who’d become unemployed." That's a pretty significant amount, and if confirmed could certainly be used as an argument to regulate advertising, or a way for therapists to help improve the lives of their patients, or in many additional ways I haven't thought of in the 30 seconds I've spent thinking about it. I wouldn't be so quick to be dismissive of "blatantly obvious" scientific studies.
- banads 7y agoYou're right, this could be a useful statistic to use in an argument, especially to data driven people, like advertisers themselves.